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Hie Church and Some 
Outstanding Problems 

Of The Day 
by 

Reverend Jones I. Corrigan, S. J., 
of Boston College 

Nine addresses delivered in the Catholic Hoar, sponsored by the National Council of CathoUc Men with the co-operation of the National Broadcasting Company and its Asso-ciated Stations. 
(On Sundays from September 4 to October 30, 1932) 

I. The Nation's Youth Problem, n. The Nation's Divorce Problem. III. The Nation's Grime Problem. IV. The Machine Age. V. The World Crisis. VI. Unemployment. VII. Peace and War. Yin. The Citizen's Public Duty. IX. Christ or Chaos. 

National Council of CathoUc Men 
Sponsor of the Catholic Hoar 

1312 Massachusetts Avenue 
Washington, D. C. 





The Church and Some 
Outstanding Problems 

Of The Day 
by 

Reverend Jones I. Corrigan, S. J., 
of Boston College 

Nine addresses delivered in the Catholic Hour, sponsored by the National Council of Catholic Men with the co-operation of the National Broadcasting Company and its Asso-ciated Stations. 
(On Sundays from September 4 to October 30, 1932) 

I. The Nation's Youth Problem. II. The Nation's Divorce Problem. III. The Nation's Crime Problem. IV. The Machine Age. V. The World Crisis. VI. Unemployment. VII. Peace and War. VIII. The Citizen's Public Duty. IX. Christ or Chaos. 

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National Council of Catholic Men 
Sponsor of the Catholic Hour 

1312 Massachusetts Avenue 
Washington, D. C. 

Pr inted and distr ibuted by Ou r S u n d a y V i s i tor 
Hunt ington, Ind iana 





FOREWORD 
Seldom, if ever, in the history of our country has the morale of the Nation been so low. I t is not alone the de-pression which is causing concern to thinking men m every walk of life, but the prevalence of crime and lawlessness, the corruption in public office, the conditions among youth, the decay of morals, the disappearance' of religious influence, these are the questions tha t are giving every lover of Ame-rica anxious moments for the stability and permanence ol our great adventure in democracy. 
In these short Radio Addresses an at tempt is made to marshal the facts, point out the trends, and indicate the needs which may help to a solution of these Pressing Prob-lems of the Day. It is the conviction of the author of these broadcasts tha t Washington was right, eternally right, when he declared enlightenment, and morality, and religion to be the pillars of the State. Our heritage of freedom rests upon those three supports. If the Nation totters, i t is because dry rot has eaten away the solid substance of the pillars. Onlv a revival of genuine American citizenship, based on enlightenment, strengthened in morality and inspired by re-ligion, will bring back tha t sense of responsibility without which our f ree institutions cannot endure. 
If these broadcasts help even in a small way to rescue our democracy f rom the perils tha t beset her, the author will feel more than repaid for the labor they have entailed. 



DEDICATION 
To the National Council of Catholic Men, whose aim and object is identical with the purpose of the author of these broadcasts, to wit, that the fuller, richer life in Christ may be the lot of all, the simple Radio Addresses contained in this pamphlet are devotedly dedicated. 



THE NATION'S YOUTH PROBLEM 
Address delivered on September 4, 1932 

"How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams, With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! All possibilities are in its hands. No danger daunts it, and no fee withstands; In its sublime audacity of faith, 'Be thou removed,' i t to the mountain saith, And with ambitious feet, secure and proud, Ascends the ladder, leaning on the cloud." 

It is thus that the poet pictures youth, active, 
energetic, wholesome, noble and true. It is thus that 
all of us who are in contact with the Nation's young 
life know youth to be in thousands of our homes, 
where the ringing'laughter of joyous, innocent chil-
dren is the sweet music that assuages parental cares 
and rewards parental sacrifices. 

Let not current pessimistic criticisms of youth 
distort the true picture, nor blind us to the all-im-
portant fact that in her 46,000,000 children, Ame-
rica has a possession beyond price, a treasure un-
equalled, a hope for the future that thrills the mind 
contemplating it. What a picture they make as they 
troop off to school next week, 23,500,000 of them to 
our elementary schools, 5,000,000 to our high 
schools, and 1,000,000 to our colleges and univer-
sities. The very presence of a widespread alarm 
and concern for youth is a sign of health. 
When public men are voicing the need of safeguard-
ing the youth of the land, it is an indication that the 
Nation is becoming aroused to the evil influences 
threatening the young. When business and profes-
sional men, clergymen, parents and teachers, are be-
ginning to give thought to the problem, that fact 
alone begets, the well-founded hope that youth, with 



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"its illusions, aspirations, dreams," will come 
through the perils of the new age unsullied and un-
daunted, if not unscathed. 

My plea tonight is for our youth. My message is 
meant especially, though not exclusively, for the 
parents of youth, the God-given, privileged guar-
dians of the young. For, after all, if children are 
the flowers of the garden of the home, who but their 
parents are the privileged gardeners appointed to 
watch over and care for those delicate blooms until 
they come to the full-blown glory of noble manhood 
and virtuous womanhood? How will our youth, 
"with ambitious feet, secure and proud, ascend the 
ladder, leaning on the cloud," unless their fathers and 
mothers are awake to the dangers surrounding youth 
today, and safeguard them from the evil influences 
that are bringing the bitter heartache to too many 
of our homes ? 

One distressing sign of the times is found in the 
sharp drop in the criminal age within a generation. 
Thirty years ago, the average criminal age was 40. 
Today it is nearer 20. The youthful criminal has 
become a familiar figure. Crimes of violence are be-
ing perpetrated by young men in their teens, and 
the gunman, hijacker or gangster who has passed his 
thirtieth year is now a rarity. Add to this the con-
duct-disorders in our high and elementary schools, the 
statutory crimes involving the young that shock the 
Nation from time to time, the drinking, petting and 
carousing parties that have become all too common 
in American young life, and you will begin to sense 
that the youth problem is very real, and that par-
ents, and all who have the care of the young, should 
give thought to the problem as it affects their own 



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children, at least, in order that youth's "sublime au-
dacity of faith" may be preserved. 

Much of the harm to youth is done in certain of 
our schools and colleges, and here, especially, parents 
can save themselves bitter regrets, and their children 
wrecked lives, by keeping their boys and girls away 
from such institutions. In some of these schools, 
cynics are undermining the ideals of youth; senti-
mentalists are basely distorting the emotional life of 
youth; pseudo-philosophers are sadly misleading 
youth away from the high principles of noble living, 
offering in their stead unbridled license as the guid-
ing principle of life, self-indulgence and self-gratifi-
cation as its goal. What chance has your boy or girl 
in schools of this type, where polished, paganized 
professors are deliberately unsettling the religious 
convictions of the students, and holding out to them 
the lure of worse than pagan immorality? What re-
spect for religion, what reverence for the authority 
of law, human or divine, can withstand the subtle, 
sinister influence of professors who sneer at the 
"myth and outworn superstition", as they call it, of 
a personal God? 

How can your boy fail to be unsettled when told 
in some of our secular colleges and universities that 
the criminal is in no way responsible for his crime, 
that neither in the criminal nor in the ordnary citi-
zen is there the slightest shred of freedom in any of 
his acts, that everything is predestined by his here-
dity or by his experiences since birth, or both? 

What wonder that youthful morals are causing 
concern, when in universities, professing to be in-
stitutions of learning, and founded by pious Protes-
tants to promote the interests of Christ and His 
Church, highly-paid rationalistic professors are 



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teaching that the Ten Commandments are only a 
man-made code of etiquette, the crystallized will of a 
group, not the revealed law of God binding upon the 
conscience of man! Abandoned ideals, wrecked lives 
are the outcome, and the bitter salt tears of disillu-
sioned mothers and fathers can never make up to 
their sons and daughters for the destruction that has 
been wrought. How parents, who commit their sons 
and daughters to such sinister influences, can be ab-
solved of direct blame, passes understanding. In 
God's name, withdraw them in time! 

Another fertile source of trouble with the young 
comes from companionships. The youth problem 
would be already half-solved, if parents would look 
into the companionships of their children. Right 
companionships are both a preventive of harm, and 
a powerful constructive force in young lives. There 
is a deep suggestion for parents, and a warning, too, 
in the fact that criminals under 13 years of age al-
most always go in gangs. They need encouragement 
from each other to carry through their escapades. 
If your boy is a member of a gang, the chances of 
delinquency are almost a sure wager. Get him away 
from that influence immediately. But don't stop 
there. Don't rest until, in place of the gang, you 
have helped him to form wholesome, vigorous friend-
ships that will, at once, satisfy his natural craving 
for companionship, and at the same time exert a 
steadying, strengthening and inspiring influence in 
his life. 

In working with youth, our program, to be suc-
cessful, must be related to boy nature. It must be 
long on expression, and short on repression. It must 
be filled with romance and adventure and thrill, be-
cause boys are romanticists and adventurers. 



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It must be a program that boys like. It must be 

impelling in its appeal and absorbing in its pull; a 
program that boys want, and not that men merely 
want boys to like. A program that a boy likes, but 
that is not boyish. It must allow for individual vari-
ation, for boys are not all cast in the same mold. 

It must be a health-giving program. It must build 
vitality, organic vigor, virility. It must set up habits 
that carry on into adult life, and that push back the 
oncoming of senility and senescence. 

It must be a character-building program, for ef-
fective character can be built only in relation to ac-
tivity. It must have an appeal to honor, virtue, thrift 
and integrity. It must develop these virtues without 
teaching them as such. They must not be imposed, 
but rather" grow out of the activities in which he 
engages, in a natural way. 

Above all, a successful youth program must serve 
to develop religious and spiritual ideals based upon 
deep religious convictions. There is no substitute 
for the religious motive. It unifies life, gives it 
direction, and inspiraitonal force. Without it, there 
is an incompleteness about life, a sense of futility in 
effort, an absence of what modern life needs most: 
the sense of responsibility, of personal responsibil-
ity to Almighty God. 

How long shall we delude and deceive ourselves 
and defraud youth by depriving our young people of 
the inspirational ideals that come from religion 
alone? Are we forgetting Washington's wise warn-
ing that "reason and experience both forbid us to 
expect that national morality can prevail in exclu-
sion of religious principle?" Our careless neglect in 
the Christian training of the young is treason to 
youth and treachery to our country as well. In vain 



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shall we look for a recession of the crime wave, if 
we continue to neglect the Christian training of 
youth. The Christian training and education of 
youth is one of the most vital problems of the day. 

Religion has inspired more literature, more 
painting, more sculpture, more architecture, more 
noble living than any other one thing. Where prac-
tical religious life wanes, the fuller, richer life de-
cays. Youth workers should ponder, parents should 
never forget that "Unless the Lord build the city, 
they labor in vain who build it." 

Religious apathy and spiritual illiteracy are the 
greatest curse of the youth of any land. Religious 
influence and spiritual inspiration form the most 
vitally energizing, uplifting and ennobling force on 
earth. One thing is certain: the real reforms which 
society in these days is seeking, will come as a result 
of our religious convictions, or they will not come at 
all. 

Dear friends of the radio audience, the Nation's 
Youth Problem is your problem. Our youth, God 
bless them, are the future's brightest hope. To gain 
for them a fuller, richer life, is your task. They need 
interpreting, adjusting, steadying. Don't fail them 
in these crucial times. No labor is lost, no effort 
wasted, that aims to build better men and women. 

Youth's own idealism is our best ally in the battle 
to save America's youth from the real dangers of 
the day. It is a glorious task to stir the idealism of 
youth with courage to dare, with ambition to 
achieve, with nobility to strive, with inspiration to 
win. 

The early years are vital, for "it's hard to take 
out of the- oak the twist that grew in the sapling." 
After-remedies often come too late. There will be 



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discouragements, there will be need of patience, but, 
withal, there will be the undying consolation too of 
knowing that through your efforts, you have helped, 
in some small measure, to enhance the truth of the 
poet's inspiring words : 

"How beautiful is youth I How bright it gleams! With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend. 



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THE NATION'S DIVORCE PROBLEM 
Addlress delivered on September 11, 1932 

The Nation's divorce problem is, at last, arrest-
ing the attention of the Nation. Public men are 
frankly concerned at the increasing number of our 
broken homes. A changed attitude of mind toward 
divorce is clearly discernable in the public utterances 
of the country's foremost statesmen and educators. 
It is a fortunate, if belated, recognition that, in di-
vorce, our beloved country, America, is facing a peril 
worse than war, a disease already far advanced, a 
plague that has become epidemic, with results to our 
moral and social well-being as a Nation that may 
give all of us pause. 

The figures on divorce are appalling, and tragic 
in their significance. Last year, in 1931, the number 
of divorces totaled 183,695. The year before, the 
number was 191,591. Over 4,000,000 men and 
women have been divorced in the country since the 
beginning of the present century. What wonder 
that thinking men are begining to ponder. We have 
now reached the point at which, in America, homes 
are being broken annually at the rate of one divorce 
to every 5.8 marriages. It is growing steadily worse 
and in many of our States it has gone far beyond 
this. Statistics show, for example; in Maine, one di-
vorce for every 4.6 marriages; in Ohio, one to 3.2; in 
Texas, one to 2.6; in Wyoming, one to 1.9; while in 
Nevada, the statistics show one divorce to every 1.5 
marriages. Here is the divorce problem in the raw. 
Extinction lies just ahead. 

While Canada to the north of us is counting its 
divorces in the hundreds, we count ours in the hun-



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dreds of thousands. In 1916, there were fifty-seven 
divorces in all of Canada; that year, in the United 
States, there were 112,036. Canada's rate is one 
divorce to every 161 marriages; our rate is one di-
vorce to every 5.8 marriages. That the divorce wave 
has been steadily mounting in the United States, is 
best seen by comparative rates over a number of 
years. In 1887, we had one divorce to every 17 mar-
riages; in 1900, one divorce to every 12 marriages; 
in 1923, one divorce to every 9 marriages; in 1928, 
one divorce to every 6 marriages; in 1931, one di-
vorce to every 5.8 marriages. And the Nation's 
stability and permanence depends upon the perman-
ence and stability of the Nation's homes! 

Why blind ourselves longer? These figures 
clearly have imbedded in them the seeds of national 
disintegration. Public apathy to the growing 
evil of divorce and failure to recognize its grave 
menace are the chief causes which will bring 
about this disintegration. The figures are shock-
ing. The public indifference to them is tragic. 
Does this indifference mean that" the public is now 
disposed to condone as necessary what they once re-
garded as outrageous, and to accept as inevitable 
what they know should be suppressed as disintegra-
ting and demoralizing? Is divorce to become the 
normal condition, permanent marriage the abnormal 
state among us? 

The question is pertinent, for the growing dis-
position to regard divorce as a normal instead 
of an abnormal condition is shown by frequent 
signs. Writers of national and international 
repute are writing in our magazines articles 
setting forth the materialistic conception of mar-
riage, and seeking to justify divorce by pagan phil-



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
osophy. Papers carry interviews with false femin-
ists and Utopian reformers, Whose ideal is nothing 
higher than selfish earthly happiness, which, in their 
opinion, should outweigh every moral law, divine as 
well as human. Current literature and the moving 
pictures are constantly popularizing the wrong 
notion that the only escape from marital infelicity 
is divorce. 

Divorce has become what Chesterton calls a 
superstition. And as a superstition it is increasing. 
It possesses the appetite that grows with what it 
feeds upon. Year by year, the wave has been mount-
ing until, today, it threatens to engulf the home-life 
of America. From one divorce in every 15 mar-
riages, divorces mounted quickly to one in every 10, 
one in every 9, one in every 8, until now they stand 
at one in every 5.8 marriages. And the end is not 
yet in sight. 

Up to the present, public opinion has not been 
sufficiently aroused to take a determined stand 
against divorce; and public opinion alone can 
bring the needed reforms. Shall we wait until 
the American family is extinct? Shall we delay 
until the American home is shattered? Shall 
we put off action until national morality is a thing 
of shreds and patches and national stability ir-
remediably undermined? The time has come to face 
the facts and destroy this national cancer. The time 
has come to act like wise men, and rouse ourselves 
from apathy to action. Divorce weakened ancient 
Rome to its fall. It is draining the .vitality of our 
country to-day. Rome fell. Will America survive? 

The fact is that for a decade or more, in America, 
marriage has been under constant assault. Senti-
mentalists have been distorting the trrie idea of hu-



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
man love; sensualists have been undermining the 
true nature of human wedlock; legalists have been 
loosening the ties of the home and multiplying the 
grounds for divorce, until today, in the United States, 
with our forty-eight different codes on marriage and 
divorce, and our fifty-two causes for sundering the 
bond, we show the most rapid increase of divorces of 
any civilized country, pagan or Christian, in the en-
tire world. For the maintenance of family integrity, 
and for the good of society, if not for the glory of 
God and the salvation of souls, we cannot get back 
too soon to the Christian ideal of Holy Matrimony. 
The utter loss of that ideal is the most terrifying 
fact in contemporary American life. 

We read of great sins and great sinners in times 
past. But we read also that they excited the in-
dignation of society, and that the greatest sinner of 
them all never attempted to justify his sin, or to 
legalize it, or to obtain for it the approbation of his 
fellow-man, or of the laws of his country. But in 
our day and time, what do we find ? We find the in-
constancy and the infidelity of man legalized, ac-
knowledged by the State, in that most infamous, 
most unchristian, most unholy law by which a man 
is permitted by the law of the land, to break the bond 
that he contracted in marriage before the altar of 
God, and to divorce the pure and holy, and high-
minded wife, who was the first mistress of his earli-
est love. 

While Christian law upholds the unbreakable 
bond, this legislation tells the woman, no matter how 
pure she be, no matter how holy she be, that she is 
never secure in her position, that she is never safe 
from some base conspiracy, that she may be driven 
forth from her husband's house, covered with ruin. 



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her name dishonored, her position lost, not knowing 
where to turn in her mid-life or in her old age— 
the abandoned, the injured, the down-trodden wo-
man—because the State and the laws have given 
man power to.do it. 

By our divorce laws and by pandering to divorce, 
we have poisoned'the public mind not alone by sug-
gesting evil, but by suggesting a plausible excuse for 
it. As a result, respect for womanhood, wifehood, 
motherhood, is on the decline, while, as the crowning 
social menace of divorce, we now find that our 
criminal classes are being recruited from the chil-
dren of our 'broken homes'. Ten years ago, if a 
'hold-up' case were being tried in our courts, you 
would see in the dock or on the bench reserved for 
the accused, hard-bitten, experienced law-breakers 
between 35 and 50 years of age. To-day, if some one 
is accused of 'robbery under arms'—one of the most 
serious charges after murder in our criminal code— 
you will soon discover that the accused persons are 
mere youths, anywhere from 17 to 21. Why, during 
the past ten years, has the age limit of such offenders 
fallen from 40 to 20? Ask them, and they will tell 
you. Of these immature young criminals over 70 
per cent—and that is a conservative estimate—are 
the children of 'broken homes'. 

While they were mere children, the father de-
serted the mother,- leaving her to support the babies 
by going out to work, thus allowing them to grow up 
on the streets and to learn how to evade the truant 
officer. Or the mother went off with another man., 
and the unfortunate father, who had to be at his 
work all day, could not watch over his children's 
development, and was so tired out when he came 



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'home' at night that all he asked of them was 'to 
keep quiet'. 

This is the crime history of 70 per cent of our 
juvenile delinquents and young criminals. They are 
the awful price we are paying for the folly of our 
broken homes. Broken homes, broken hearts, broken 
lives! These are the unhappy fruits we gather from 
the violation of the great law of Jesus Christ, "What 
God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." 

Of course, I know that some will urge the difficult 
individual cases of infidelity, of desertion, of cruelty, 
of non-support, or of incompatibility of temper. But 
apart from the fact that the very possibility of 
divorce increases these crimes, and explains their 
current prevalence among us, there are other ways 
short of divorce, of meeting the difficulty they occa-
sion. The Christian law of no-divorce is for the gen-
eral well-being. Like all laws, it bears heavily, at 
times, upon the individual; but what law for the 
general benefit of the community is abrogated, be-
cause, at times, in individual instances it is found 
burdensome to the few ? No! The good of the Nation 
ought not be forfeited, or even put in jeopardy, be-
cause of the individual, often himself at fault. 

Dear friends of the radio audience, religion and 
sociology are absolutely at one in their appreciation 
of the paramount importance of the home for human 
progress and the moral improvement of the race. In 
both sciences, it is admitted that the destinies of 
mankind are intimately bound up with the perman-
ence of the home and the stability of the family. The 
collapse of the home would entail the breakdown of 
society and the complete disintegration of civiliza-
tion. At all stages of history, the home and the fam-
ily have been threatened by the selfishness of men 



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and by carnal lust and passion. In our day, home and 
family are facing a new crisis, and are menaced by 
novel dangers. A reinforcement of the home and the 
family is necessary if we are to stay the moral dis-
solution, which already has begun, and which is 
spreading with alarming and disquieting rapidity. 
The home is the inner sanctuary of society. As long 
as it stands intact and undesecrated, purifying in-
fluences will go forth from it and pour vitalizing 
energies into the whole social body. The family can 
rebuild a nation and reconstruct a civilization in 
decay. The more closely knife the family and the 
more compact the unity of the home, the better for 
society at large,, and the moral tone of the Nation 
as well. 

As you sit in your homes and hear these words 
out of the air, recall the great law of Jesus Christ: 
"What God hath joined together, let no man put 
asunder." That law safeguards your home and every 
home in the Nation. It is the defender of your fire-
side, the champion of your children, the strong bul-
wark of the Republic itself. 

That law stands for the integrity of the family 
and the sanctity of the home. That law, by securing 
for childhood the exquisite blessings of maternal af-
fection and the strong protection of fatherly care, 
has made mankind the everlasting debtor to Jesus 
Christ. While that law is in observance, a man may 
face the world, unruffled, serene, joyous, 

"His native home deep imag'd in his soul." 
How can divorce be right when it destroys the 

permanent things that make for the Nation's wel-
fare, homes for the Nation's children, and shrines 
for human love? 



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THE NATION'S CRIME PROBLEM 
Address delivered on September 18, 1932 

No incident ever shocked the Nation into a real-
ization of its crime problem like" the recent kidnap-
ing of the Lindbergh baby. That heinous, and atro-
cious, and particularly fiendish crime, brought home 
to the popular mind, as nothing else could, the fact 
that the army of desperate criminals which has been 
recruited in the last decade is winning its battle 
against society. 

How few, even now, have any adequate idea of 
the extent of the problem! How few appreciate the 
threat to the orderly processes of life in the rise of 
organized crime! And yet, publicity here is essential, 
a knowledge of the facts is vital, if we are to pro-
ceed without hysteria to a well-planned, rational 
solution of this most vexing problem. 

Even the sketchy statistics which we have on 
crime are appalling, but sketchy though they are, 
they unfold a picture of lawlessness that stuns the 
mind, and calls for prompt action to wipe out this 
national disgrace, to meet the challenge of rule by 
the gangster with the triumph of the law. 

Here are some statistics on crime for thoughtful 
men to ponder; and they are from unimpeachable 
sources: from Warden Lewis E. Lawes, of Sing Sing 
Penitentiary; from Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, con-
sulting statistician of the Prudential Insurance Com-
pany, and from the report of the commission on 
crime of the American Bar Association. 

In the total crime history of the country, fifteen 
million have been arrested in the United States for 
one thing or another, while five million have been in-



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
carcerated in our prisons, jails or reformatories. 
To-day we have in prison a number of people equal 
to the standing army of the United States. 

Our murder rate has doubled since 1900. 12,000 
murders or homicides are committed every year at 
the present time, fifty times the number recorded in 
Great Britain. The criminals at large outnumber the 
police. There are approximately 135,000 persons 
who have unlawfully taken human life at large, un-
punished, and unafraid, in the United States—about 
50,000 more slayers at large than there are police-
men in the entire country. What wonder the gang-
ster holds human life cheap. Apprehension for the 
crime of murder has become a grim jest! 

The money cost of crime to the people, directly 
and indirectly, each year, is more than three times 
the total income of the Federal Government from 
customs and internal revenue receipts. 

In the face of these appalling figures, considering 
the cost of the courts, the cost of the police, the loss 
to the community in dollars and cents, to say noth-
ing of the inestimable loss in human lives and suffer-
ing, it is astounding that the average American 
business man has considered the subject of crime as 
though it did not in any degree touch upon his 
world. He has looked upon it as a necessary evil, but 
one which concerned experts and others, but never 
himself. Crime touches all of us, in money and taxes 
if not directly in person. 

One billion dollars is taken from the public every 
year by bucket shops, land and stock swindlers. 
$125,000,000 on an average are embezzled each year. 
Approximately $525,000,000 are taken from the homes 
of property owners by burglars each year. Forgers 
as their share receive approximately $100,000,000. 



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Fraudulent bankrupts and credit frauds account for 
four hundred million, while political grafters and 
persons who steal from the governments run off with 
two hundfed million dollars more. In the six months 
ended in February last, American banks and trust 
companies suffered 288 daylight robberies and 35 
night burglaries, that is an average of two attacks 
every business day. 

A conservative estimate of the cost of prevention, 
detection, prosecution and punishment of crime is 
estimated at one billion dollars. When you add to 
this the cosf of maintaining prisons and institutions 
you have a grand total which staggers the imagina-
tion and defies apology. 

Crime to-day in our country is a profession, an 
organized business, deliberately entered upon, and 
minutely organized. The greater part of stealing is 
done by organized thieves. It is in fact a "crime 
trust," whose business is burglary, highway robbery 
and embezzlement, with incidental murder on occa-
sion. But the most sinister aspect of the whole crime 
problem is found in the corruption of public officials. 
In some of our large cities, a well-established, three-
cornered alliance exists between the police depart-
ment, the corrupt politician and the criminal ele-
ment. This triple aliance between grafting police, 
corrupt politicians and ruthless racketeers has made 
a mockery of ordered government in many localities. 

This inter-fraternity of gangdom, politics and 
the law enforcing agencies is more than a challenge 
to the law; it is a supplanting of the law by outlaw 
combinations, whose greed for easy money has 
brought the break-down of government and author-
ity very near. An intolerable situation has arisen in 
which police and public officials are dominated by 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
politicians, gangsters and racketeers, business men 
are preyed on with impunity, grafting in public 
funds has become the rule, and an orgy of crime has 
resulted, approaching at times to a complete collapse 
of local civil authority. This is the crime problem 
at its worst. When the crime octopus fixes its ten-
tacles on the very machinery of the law, what hope 
is there of breaking its strangling grip? 

There is every hope, provided that public apathy 
can be replaced by public interest. No matter how 
sinister or hostile social conditions may be, they pass 
away with a startling abruptness once men and 
women, conscious of their tyranny, proceed against 
them. We can never abolish crime entirely. We can 
check it. We can improve our condition. We can 
restore the reign of law. 

Celerity, Certainty, Finality! This should be the 
call to arms in the unceasing, nation-wide warfare 
against the mounting tide of crimes. Celerity of ap-
prehension, certainty of prosecution, finality of pun-
ishment—these are the most effective safeguards 
against the modern bandit. These improvements 
have to do with police efficiency and the functioning 
of our courts. There is not the slightest doubt that 
one of the greatest needs of the Nation today is im-
provement in the administration of justice, especial-
ly of the criminal law. A firm but just criminal law, 
and honest, fearless courts, are a prime essential for 
success in the battle with crime in every part of 
the nation to-day. 

But while criminal law and the courts must put 
the chief emphasis on apprehension and prosecution, 
the real hope for a crimeless future is in prevention. 
Unless we can enlist the homes of the nation, and 
the schools of the nation, and the churches of the na-



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
tion, in this great work of prevention, the octopus of 
crime will continue to squeeze the life blood out of 
the nation. 

An analysis of the crimes committed throughout 
the country reveals the fact that the majority of 
them are either crimes of greed, or crimes of lust, 
or crimes of anger. Now greed, lust and anger are 
human passions. And the training of the young in 
the mastery of the passions is the work of the home, 
the purpose of the school, and one of the objects of 
the churches. May it not well be that the growth of 
crime among us must be traced to the failure of our 
homes, to the weakness of our education, and to the 
defects of our churches in the moral and religious 
training and education of our youth? 

Our antiquated legal machinery, the abuses in 
the administration of the law, the law's delays, all of 
these must bear some of the blame for the prevalence 
of crime among us; but our homes, and schools, and 
churches too must share the indictment for their 
failure in the character-building ef the Nation's 
youth, in the effective mastery of the passions, 
especially the three great sources of crime, the pas-
sions of greed, lust and anger. Here is where the 
preventive work must be done, if the national dis-
honor and disgrace of crime is ever to be overcome. 

How slow we have been to grasp the simple truth 
that knowldge is power only when combined with 
moral character! What a price we have paid for our 
folly in striving in our schools to educate the mind 
of youth while neglecting to educate youth's heart 
and conscience! How much better to purify the 
stream of crime at its source, the untrained con-
science, rather than at its outlet, the penitentiary! 

Dear friends, the key to the crime problem is in 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
better homes, better schools, better churches—the 
character-building forces of the Nation. If a child 
grows up in a home of moral purity, where love 
reigns supreme and discord is absent, and attends a 
school where the education is of the heart as well as 
of the head; if the idealism of his youthful years is 
fired by the inspirations which religion alone can 
supply, then the chances of criminal conduct in that 
child's after-years are reduced to a minimum. The 
nation that would conquer crime, must look to the 
training of its youth! 

That word "train" holds the secret. To train 
means far more than merely to impart knowledge. 
It means establishing right habits and evoking the 
powers of conscience to choose the right and reject 
the wrong. Little good will result from mere in-
struction about morals. It is training the child to 
live moral ideals that will promote citizenship, check 
crime, and assure a higher quality of human life. 

Dear friends of the radio audience, the crime 
problem is your problem. If you are business men, 
you are making a heavy outlay because of crime. 
If you are parents, the crime, problem touches the 
very safety and happiness of your home. And as 
citizens, interested in the welfare, the peace, and 
prosperity of our country, the problem of crime de-
mands the public interest of all. 

Are gangsters and racketeers to be more power-
ful than the forces of law and order? Is the ordin-
ary citizen to be more afraid of the criminal than 
confident in the constituted authorities of his com-
munity? Are our great cities to become so terror-
ized and demoralized that the organized business of 
crime may operate without fear of interference and 
with almost complete immunity from punishment? 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
When many of the most responsible and thought-

ful citizens of the country are asking just these ques-
tions privately if not in public, surely the time has 
come to deal with crime. With the apprehension and 
prosecution of the criminal, we may have little to do, 
save to support the authorities in their efforts to 
secure celerity of apprehension, certainty of prosecu-
tion, and finality of punishment. But with preven-
tion, there is not a home in the land that cannot do 
its part. 

If we develop in our children habits of honesty, 
habits of truthfulness, habits of industry, habits of 
personal purity, and other virtues essential to the 
stability of our social structure, we have done our 
part. In our country we have wealth, power, intelli-
gence; but thus far we have not implanted in our 
citizenship the power to control wealth and scientific 
discoveries in harmony with those great ideals which 
guarantee the happiness and welfare of our people. 
Through the existence of the crime wave, it is now 
becoming increasingly clear that society must learn 
how to teach virtue, and find a way to give every 
child a systematic training in morality and religion, 
if the octopus of crime is to be vanquished. Without 
that, crime will flourish; the Nation will hardly 
endure, 

" 'Till sovereign law, tha t State's collected will. O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." 



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THE MACHINE AGE 
Address delivered on September 25, 1932 

If you were asked to characterize the civilization 
of our time, to sum up in a word the culture of the 
present, you would probably answer: "Ours is the 
machine age." Other civilizations have been called 
the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age. With 
equal, if not greater precision and definiteness, ours 
may be called the machine age. 

How the machine has revolutionized life! With 
what amazing swiftness changes have come! How 
striking the contrast between the simple life of our 
grandfathers and the feverish hustle of modern 
days ! On land, on sea, and in the air, machinery has 
changed the whole face of living, until today, we 
smile at the simple inventions of the past, which, in 
their day and time, were thought to be marvels of 
human ingenuity and inventiveness. 

Our wireless telegraph flashes a message clear 
to the other side qf the globe, and the answer is 
back in our hands within eight seconds. As I speak 
over the radio, my voice is heard in every part of 
the country, even before the sound carries through 
the air to the last hearer in this hall. 

The Empire State Building, in New York, rear-
ing its beautiful lines into the air, twice the height 
of the Washington Monument, is made possible only 
by the machine. Without machinery, its 57,000 tons 
of steel never could have been hoisted and put in 
place; without machinery, its 200,000 cubic feet of 
Indiana limestone never could have been set; with-
out machinery, its great stream-line tower, with its 
beautiful crest, gleaming golden in thè late afternoon 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
sun, a thousand feet above the sidewalk, never could 
have become a beacon for the future mariners of the 
air. 

With machines we tunnel under our rivers and 
through our mountains; with machines, 600 feet be-
low the surface of the earth, we bore great aque-
ducts to bring pure, fresh, mountain water hundreds 
of miles for the teeming millions of our great cities; 
with machines we construct mile after mile of roads 
and boulevards, linking the very oceans with ribbons 
of concrete. 

Airplanes cloud the sky and span the ocean— 
because of the machine; giant locomotives haul our 
heavy Pullman trains clickety-clack over the rails 
at a speed of 90 miles an hour—because of the 
machine; battleships, like floating forts, marvels of 
precision, efficiency, and power, protect our shores 
from invasion, our lives from attack—because of 
the machine. 

Yes, ours is certainly the machine age! Whereas 
the first printing press had a capacity of 800 single 
printed pages an hour, to-day, our fast rotary news-
paper presses turn out a whole Sunday paper, 96 
pages, at the rate of 17 copies a second, 1000 copies 
a minute, 60,000 copies an hour. 

The machine age! Is there any limit to man's in-
ventive genius and adaptive skill? Is there any need 
he cannot fill, any want he cannot supply, any com-
fort he cannot bestow? So we boast! So we boast! 

And yet, strange paradox, while we have been 
increasing the comforts of life, we have failed utter-
ly to solve living. Indeed it may be asked whether 
we have not lost much of living in the very quest for 
life. "Not by bread alone doth man live, but by 
every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God." 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
No Nation has solved living that has the record of 
crime that stains and smirches the fair name of our 
beloved country. We have not solved living with a 
murder record 50 times that of Britain, with 2000 
kidnappings a year, with a crime cost equal 
to three times the total Federal income, with 
juvenile delinquency on the increase and Christian 
standards of living on the wane. No Nation has 
solved living where political corruption battens on 
the public treasury, where public officials are in alli-
ance with public enemies, where democracy itself is 
threatened by unconstitutional bureaucratic rule. 

Even in the economic field, where we might ex-
pect the machine to help us most, the machine has 
not solved living. These are indeed anxious times. 
We are approaching the fourth winter of the depres-
sion. Men's minds are beginning to question the 
foundations of our economic order. They want to 
know the "why" of this "panic of plenty". Why are 
men starving when our granaries are bulging with 
grain? Why are men idle when the need for indus-
try's products was never so great? Why are millions 
in poverty when our banks are filled with gold? 

The machine age! Yes, the machine has brought 
us luxuries, but it has brought Us unemployment, too. 
Machines have erected palaces, but the hovels of the 
poor remain. Our farms have been mechanized in 
wondrous ways, yet our farmers starve. Ah, No! 
The machine has not solved living. It has, in many 
ways, served only to accentuate the problems of life. 

Shall we then scrap the machine ? That would be 
to put civilization into reverse. And civilization 
never goes into reverse. Shall we set the clock of 
progress back, and ask mankind to mark time in its 
forward drive for the fuller, richer life? That were 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
as futile as to try to push back the tumbling waters 
of Niagara's mighty falls. Shall we go back to the 
days of yesteryear when steam shovels were un-
known and men digged the earth with pick and 
spade, and found life hard? 

No! Never! Machines are here to stay. But the 
domination, the mastery, the tyranny of the machine 
must be destroyed forever. It's not in the machines, 
but in ourselves that We are slaves. Adjustments 
must be made; adjustments shall be made. The high-
er aspirations of mankind shall not be thwarted. 
Machines will be made subservient to men and will 
extend human happiness. 

The same outcry against the machine greeted the 
introduction of the spinning-jenny, the cotton-gin, 
the steam engine itself. There were people living 
one hundred years ago, who would have scrapped 
the machines had they been given the chance. But 
who of intelligence to-day would say that the world 
would be a better place to live in had the develop-
ment of machinery stopped in 1832? 

Whatever may be said against the machine, the 
fact remains that it has lowered prices, and spread 
the comforts of life over millions of lives. It has 
been instrumental in shortening working hours; it 
has lessened the drudgery of work; it has given our 
workers factory accommodations far in advance of 
those available for the workers of past generations, 
while the many appliances to lighten the labor of the 
wives and mothers in millions of our American 
homes are made possible only by the fact that we 
are living in the age of machinery. All of this, in 
fair honesty, should be set down to the credit of the 
machine. 

But living in the machine age, the great danger 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
is lest we come to live machine lives, to become so 
engrossed and satisfied with the material good things 
of life as to lose completely the spiritual satisfaction 
of the soul and open the way to an era of moral 
decadence where even justice is denied. This would 
be to warp life, to stunt* it, to dwarf it, to darken 
life, as mere materialism always does by shutting off 
from life the sunlight of God. "Not by bread alone 
doth man live, but by every word that proceedeth 
from the mouth of God." 

Ants and bees lead busy lives, but man is more 
than insect. As long as man is man, his restless 
spirit craves immortality, his heart finds rest in 
naught save God. Addison sensed the thought and 
expressed this deep tremendous truth in those strik-
ing lines: 

"I t must be so. . . . Else—, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing a f t e r immortality? Or, whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on itself, and startles a t destruction? 'Tis Heaven itself tha t points out a hereafter , And intimates Eterni ty to man." 
The machine age can help us in the quest for God. 

It cannot of itself, and by itself, reward that quest. 
The menace of the machine lies precisely in the ten-
dency of the machine to divert man from that quest, 
to narrow the comprehension of life to one of its 
elements, and that its lowest element, the material. 
When mechanical tendencies are pushed too far, men 
become nothing but sterile workers like ants or bees. 
Humanity comes to be regarded as raw material in-
stead of as individuals. The machine must not en-
slave; it can enfranchise. 

Is the machine to kill the spirit and culture of 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
civilization? In our mechanical era, with its repeti-
tive work, its uninspiring tasks, its deadening mono-
tony, what of intellectual development, what of emo-
tional life, what of art and architecture and music, 
what of life's spiritual values ? 

The answer lies with ourselves. Blame not the 
engineer whose work has changed unsanitary to 
sanitary factories, reduced industrial accidents and 
occupational diseases, brightened up shops, eased the 
load of physical labor. Blame rather ourselves for 
our failure to see the potentialities in the engineer's 
triumphs, and to build for ourselves on the founda-
tions he has laid a spiritual greatness comparable 
in its sphere with the greatest triumphs of the 

' machine age. Not destruction of the machine, but 
progressive and constructive control of it, is the hope 
for a fuller, richer and more abundant life for man-
kind. 

The trouble lies not in the machine age but 
rather in us who live in the machine age. Given a 
population of human beings who know how to make 
use of their machinery for great and noble ends, 
nothing could be more wonderful than that they 
should have for their use such splendid and effective 
tools as scientific invention has put at their disposal. 

Machines are dangerous and destructive of 
values only when the men behind the machines are 
unconscious of, or indifferent to, the necessity of 
living life on the basis of spiritual values. There is a 
vast difference between merely earning a living and 
living a life. The one is drab, the other is inspiring. 
It is the spiritual values and objectives that make 
the difference. The immense and tragic miscompre-
hension of the modern epoch has been its failure to 
recognize that man, unlike the insect, is essentially 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
spiritual. When men regain their love and desire for 
those things for which true religion stands and has 
always stood, the machine will lose its present men-
ace—the machine age will progressively become an 
age of almost Utopian progress. 

Our Blessed Lord, who came that we might have 
life, and have it more abundantly, Himself marked 
out the way: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and 
all these things shall be added unto you." If we 
mechanize life merely, we despiritualize it. If we 
despiritualize life, we may succeed in earning a liv-
ing, but we shall fail utterly in the glorious emprise 
of living a life. 

The fuller, richer, more abundant life never for-
gets that: 

"Life is probation, and the earth no goal, But starting point of man." 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 

THE WORLD CRISIS 
Address delivered' on October 2, 1932 

These are indeed times that try men's souls. We 
are now approaching the fourth winter of this de-
pression. Reflecting minds have speculated on wheth-
er we are not passing through one of the great crises 
in the history of mankind. World trade has 
fallen from $31,000,000,000 in 1929 to $18,000,000,-
000 in 1932. In that brief period it has been halved, 
while unemployment has doubled. Up to June of this 
year unemployment increased at an average rate of 
267,000 a month. If unemployment continues to in-
crease at this rate, we shall have well over 13,000,-
000 out of work by January, 1933. 

The depression has cost the people of the United 
States $150,000,000,000 in the shrinkage of our na-
tional wealth alone, while in one year, our national 
income is less by $14,000,000,000. Private fortunes 
have dwindled alike with government revenues. 
Universal bankruptcy, in the view of many, impends. 
Destitution in appalling magnitude abounds. 

We are facing a world crisis. For three long 
years, in the realm of finance and economics, the 
devastating conflict has continued unbroken—con-
tinued until billions of property values have been 
destroyed, until proud nations have been driven to 
the verge of bankruptcy, 70,000,000 unemployed 
men and women in the world with their dependents 
forced to the edge of starvation, until fortunes and 
farms and homes and broken families have been 
swept into one common sea of ruin and misery. 

Even in duration, we have never had a 
panic like the present. Since 1819, we have had 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
12 major depressions. The shortest, that of 1848. 
lasted 5 months; the longest, that of 1873, was with 
us for 30 months. The present depression, beginning 
in October 1929, has already lasted 36 months, and 
in spite of venturesome optimistic prophets—let us 
be honest—there is not a statesman, financier or in-
dustrialist, whether in Washington or anywhere 
else, who can say when it will end. 

Why deceive the people with false hopes? Far 
better for the country to be informed of the follies 
and mistaken policies that have brought us to our 
present plight, than to be beguiled with fatuous and 
misleading statements about the early return of en-
during prosperity. Hopeful signs of recovery there 
are—yes—but no assurance of relief or that the 
progress to recovery will be maintained. If we 
would avoid a recurrence of these distressful days 
for business, agriculture and industry, if we would 
save our people from the appalling destitution of the 
last three years, we must seek out the symptoms of 
our industrial ailment, diagnose the disease with 
fearless truth, and apply the remedy, even if it be 
the knife, else the cancer of depression will remain 
and the nation waste away slowly to its death. 

Many economists are reluctant to assign any one 
factor as a general cause of the depression. Some 
attribute primary responsibility for the depression 
to "malign inheritances from the Great War." It 
would be far nearer the truth to say that the de-
pression is in large part due to the "malign inherit-
ances" resulting from the creation of large aggre-
gations of capital, some of them of huge propor-
tions, without any thought of the superhuman capa-
city and social responsibility that such aggregations 
require of those at the helm. That we went too fast 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
is now recognized. That we proceeded without a 
regulator is regrettably obvious. 

The movement toward the formation of trusts, 
mergers, consolidations and reconsolidations, and 
other financial exploitations of industry and com-
merce, without check, hindrance or restraint, led to 
an era of "gambling", to a reign of intensified and 
aggressive economic selfishness and self-sufficiency 
that is responsible for most of our economic ills. In 
a word, we became the victims of the spirit of greed,' 
abandoning the binding obligations of social jus-
tice. "Rugged individualism" gone berserk explains 
the crash. Over-speculaton and over-capitalization 
since the war stand forth as the chief factors that 
have caused this debacle. A speculative mania of un-
predecented volume was indulged in for a long per-
iod by a very large portion of the people. Every 
conceivable kind of financial scheme was devised, 
placed on the market and sold to the public by un-
scrupulous, conscienceless, greedy and selfish promo-
ters. The money in the hands of the public, which 
constitutes the purchasing power of the nation, rap-
idly diminished. The savings of a lifetime were ex-
changed for unsound and over-capitalized securities. 
The investment debauch, stimulated by money-crazed 
bankers and financiers, and encouraged by madcap 
industrialists thirsting for profits and power, has 
left the country prostrate. "Rugged individualism", 
with the brakes off, has ditched the Nation's busi-
ness. 

Auctioned farms, smokeless chimneys in every 
city and town, deserted villages, empty tenements, 
vacant stores and valueless securities, these are the 
tragic evidences of an economic system that was 
criminal in its consequences because it was carried 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
on in defiance of the law of God and even of the re-
quirements of our common humanity. 

We stand aghast at the paradox of gold bulging 
from our bank vaults, money so cheap that it is being 
loaned at IV2 per cent interest, wheat piled moun-
tain high and machinery rusting, in the most ad-
vanced industrial Nation in the world, while millions 
of our fellow beings are denied the frugal comforts 
of life. What a mockery of human relations when 
destitution in appalling magnitude abounds on every 
hand, while unmarketable surpluses of basic com-
modities, the essential elements of food and cloth-
ing, glut the dépôts and magazines from which com-
merce is fed ! 

Out of such conditions, as history teaches, revol-
utionary movements arise and flourish. The plight 
of our country and of our people excites concern in 
every patriotic mind. In desperation our govern-
ments, Federal, State and local, are moved to adopt 
measures of relief with little regard for constitu-
tional limitations or for what, under ordinary cir-
cumstances, would be considered as sound economic 
principles. 

The present is no time for hysteria, but for 
sound, sober introspection looking to recovery, re-
construction, and very much needed, readjustment. 
The problem before us is two-fold ; to extricate our-
selves from the present depression and to take the 
necessary steps to prevent getting into like trouble 
in the future. 

Economic planning has been acclaimed as the 
need of the hour. Yes ! Economic planning we must 
have, but let it be economic planning that looks to 
the welfare of all, not to the selfish interest of a few. 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
Much of the economic planning so far advanced is 
really economic plotting. When bankers and finan-
ciers use the depression to bring pressure on farm-
holdings and home-owners, that is economic plotting. 
When Chambers of Commerce plead the depression 
to persuade Congress to abolish the anti-trust laws, 
that is economic plotting. When business men, un-
der pretense of the business slump, cut help to bol-
ster profits, that is economic plotting. When cap-
tains of industry plan the introduction of machinery 
with inhuman disregard of the displaced employees, 
that is economic plotting. 

Ah, yes ! Let us have economic planning. But let 
us plan for all and not for the few. For the farmer as 
well as the banker. For the home-owner as well as 
the holder of the mortgage. For the clerk as well as 
the business executive. For the mill operative as 
well as the mill owner. For the workingman as well 
as the capitalist. For the man at the machine as 
well as the man who installed the machinery. For 
the great numbers of our people who own no proper-
ty as well as for the few who own it all. 

We do indeed need economic planning, but we 
need social planning far more. A new era is dawn-
ing. It is vitally important for the Nation that its 
foundations be laid in sound principles of social jus-
tice. The welfare of the Nation, its peace and pros-
perity, demand a fair deal for all parties at interest. 
Our business men, our Chambers of Commerce, our 
captains of industry are now busy with plans for the 
business and industry of the future. How much de-
pends upon a true perspective of all the factors in-
volved! Selfish plans can only work untold harm. 
The guiding principle, the patriotic attitude, should 
be the welfare of all. 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
One thing that the present depression has taught 

is that the capitalistic system, to survive, must re-
cognize and take effective account of its social re-
sponsibilities. Such dislocations of human suffering 
and misery caused by widespread unemployment, 
old age destitution, the obsoleting of middle-aged 
men and women, and the general lowering of the 
standard of living of the working class, developing 
and recurring in any such degree as at present, 
spell the inevitable overthrow, by government action, 
if not by violent upheaval, of a system which supine-
ly permits them, or short-sightedly fails to prevent 
them. Evolution, not revolution, is the hope of re-
covery and the promise of the new era; but let it be 
an evolution that improves the lot of all. 

The era of "rugged individualism" is definitely 
over. Its selfish abuses, ending in the horrors of the 
present depression, have hastened its downfall. In 
the evolution of the new era now dawning, the 
"social objective" will be the guiding star, instead 
of the so-called "benevolently selfish" motive hitherto 
characteristic of American ambition and activity. 
Already forward-looking business leaders see that 
the only alternative to government control of indus-
try is for industry itself to provide for the workers 
greater security, greater self-respect and greater 
leisure. Industry's readiness and ability to do this 
will be the test and measure of its enduring control. 

The new trend towards industrial stabilization 
as a preventive of these recurrent depressions is the 
most promising measure that has been proposed in 
a generation. But it must include stabilization for 
labor as well as for capital, for the worker as well as 
for business, if it is to meet the demands of the new 
"social-minded" era of American industry. The de-



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
pression will not have been in vain if such stabiliza-
tion emerges from it. 

Success will depend upon a new statesmanship 
in business, industry and commerce, a business 
statesmanship, an economic leadership that must 
demonstrate that industry is the servant of the peo-
ple and not its master; that the interests of the pub-
lic come first, and not the selfish interests and pri-
vate welfare of the few; a leadership that neither 
fears the future nor seeks refuge in fatuous optimis-
tic predictions; a leadership that demonstrates its 
superiority, not by verbal proclamations, but by 
providing work and wages; a leadership which re-
cognizes its social responsibilities to the man behind 
the machine as well as to the man behind the ticker; 
a leadership, in a word, that will shift the emphasis 
from salesmanship in business to statesmanship in 
industry, a new type of leadership enlisted in the 
service, not merely of dividends, but of humanity 
as well. 

Dear friends of the radio audience, American 
business is fundamentally sound. Purged of its 
greed .and its selfishness, and conducted along the 
lines of Christ's justice and His charity, it can lead 
the Nation to new heights of prosperity blessed by 
a larger measure of social justice for all. This is the 
Christian solution, this is the Church's solution, this 
is the patriotic solution to which every lover of our 
country will subscribe. Why have industrial unrest, 
strikes and widespread suffering, when the charity 
of Christ and His justice will bring peace, happiness, 
and contentment to all? 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 

UNEMPLOYMENT 
Address delivered on October 9, 1932 

No problem of modern times has focussed the 
national attention like the problem of unemploy-
ment. During the past year we have seen millions 
of men and women tramping the streets looking for 
jobs, seeking help in churches and police stations, 
standing in bread lines, waiting in the vestibules of 
relief societies, and even storming the locked doors 
of the Capitol in Washington itself. 

Investigators, who are in a position to know, de-
clare that the current depression has produced 
greater distress than they have ever observed be-
fore; that there has been a general reduction in 
standards of living all along the line of moderate 
and low income groups ; that families accustomed to 
living at the margin have dropped below ; that fam-
ilies who have never before been dependent are to-
day calling upon the agencies for help, and that 
foreign-born families, who, by years of industry 
and effort, had raised themselves to a much better 
position, have been obliged to drop back to the level 
at which they started, or even lower. 

Actual destitution is found in many homes— 
families in cold rooms, with literally no food or fuel, 
little or no bedding, insufficient clothing, and ab-
solutely no money or credit left. As we approach 
the coming winter, the fourth winter of the depres-
sion, all signs indicate a condition of need and suf-
fering that will challenge every resource at the Na-
tion's command. With their little savings gone, 
many families are nearer to actual destitution than 
ever before—with more debts, they have fewer re-



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
sources; relatives and friends are in much the same 
circumstances; and many are suffering from a long 
period of trying to live on an inadequate income. 
Through no fault of their own, millions, literally, are 
in dire want. For them I plead. The country rose no-
bly for Belgian relief. Shall we do less for Ameri-
can relief? Shall we do less for our own? 

Surely the plight of the unemployed will awaken 
such a response of generous help this winter as the 
Nation has never seen. Give for humanity's sake; 
give for Christ's sweet charity. If you have much, 
give much; if little, give little, remembering that 
even the cup of cold water given in His Name will 
receive amazing reward. Let the rallying cry be: 
"They shall not starve!" 

The present business depression, terrible and dis-
astrous though it has been, has accomplished at 
least one good thing—it has served to awaken think-
ing people to the realization that unemployment re-
mains as the greatest unsolved problem of our eco-
nomic life. Its extent at the present time shocks 
and appalls us. In August, the figures reached elev-
en millions and a half. From January to June of 
this year, the average increase in the ranks of the 
unemployed was 267,000 a month. If unemployment 
continues to increase at this rate we shall have well 
over 13,000,000 out of work by January, three 
months hence. To maintain such an army, together 
with their dependents, is the huge task of relief this 
coming winter. It is no part of wisdom to under-
estimate it; to evade it means collapse. 

But apart from the present emergency there is 
another aspect of the subject of unemployment which 
merits far more attention than it has been getting. 
This is the so-called "technological unemployment" 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
situation—the elimination of skillful workers from 
their jobs by new machine processes. The rate of 
this permanent displacement of skilled labor is about 
150,000 a year. In four years the total is easily 
600,000 men completely displaced by machine ab-
sorption of their work. 

The most striking fact is that, while population 
in the United States has steadily increased, and 
while production in industry up to the crash con-
tinued to soar, the number of those employed kept 
falling—and still continues to fall. The professional 
musicians are a current illustration of the process. 
Here is a group of highly specialized men who face 
extinction of their jobs because of mechanical mus-
ic in the theatres. In the clothing industry cutting 
machines have had a similar effect upon another 
skilled craft. 

Instances of this machine displacement abound. 
From 1923 to 1927, a period of admittedly vigorous 
prosperity, production in the oil industry rose 89 
per cent, while hand workers declined 5 per cent; in 
the tobacco industry, production rose 66 per cent, 
while employment dropped 13 per cent ; in coal, pro-
duction rose 19 per cent, while employment fell 15 
per cent; in steel, production rose 17 per cent while 
jobs shrank 9 per cent; in cotton production, a 16 
per cent rise was matched by a labor decline of 13 
per cent. These declines were all in times of vigor-
ous prosperity. The depression has sharply increased 
the number of skilled workers eliminated from their 
jobs by the new machine processes. 

Today, giant pneumatic tubes do the work of 
300 messenger boys ; the printer-telegraph accounts 
for 8,500 fewer employment opportunities in the 
telegraph offices alone ; cigar-making machines have 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
displaced 21,000 men; one hundred boot and shoe 
machines do the work of 25,000 men; dial telephones 
already installed have displaced 70,000 operators; a 
new bottle machine, entirely automatic, gathers the 
glass and molds and blows quarter-ounce bottles at 
the rate of 240 per minute. Because of this one in-
vention somewhere between thirty and forty thous-
and men, highly skilled glass-blowers, have become 
technologically unemployed. But perhaps one of 
the most startling new mechanisms ever assembled 
is the new electric-bulb-blowing machine, capable 
of turning out, in the smaller sizes, as many as 442 
electric light bulbs a minute, or 7 a second. When 
one machine in a bottle-works today replaces 9,000 
men who would have been required in 1905, we have 
a graphic picture of the losing battle which the 
worker is waging against the machine. 

Some, of course, of these skilled workmen, thus 
forced from their chosen occupation, are absorbed 
into other industries, but it is an increasingly diffi-
cult path and usually represents a drop in wages, 
lowered living standards and lessened consuming 
power. The machine does not eat, wear clothes or 
patronize the store; the workman and his family do. 
From this angle, unemployment caused by the ma-
chine is quite as much industry's problem as it is the 
workman's. 

Viewed from any angle, unemployment is a 
scourge that must be faced and wiped out if the 
Nation is to prosper. In the economic field, the loss 
of working time amounting to millions of man-
hours is a terrific waste of vast economic resources. 
But beyond the economic distress is the human cost 
which it entails, the destruction of the workers' 
standard of life, the loss of self-respect—which 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
comes from a sense of being useless, outside the econ-
omic system and dependent on charity—the under-
mining of his capacity for good work in the future, 
and the breeding of resentment against society itself. 
When hands that want work, cannot find work, men 
begin to think. Enforced idleness makes men discon-
tented; hunger makes them angry; starving wives 
and children make them frantic. Thus unemploy-
ment makes for demoralization, lawlessness and 
anarchy, and becomes a matter of deep concern for 
the social, moral, and religious forces of the Nation. 
The challenge of unemployment must be met. The 
problem touches the deepest interests of the Nation, 
social and economic, as well as spiritual, moral and 
religious. But how meet it? 

Emergency relief will be the immediate need the 
coming winter. Creating jobs and spreading work 
will absorb some of the idle, but if unemployment is 
not to become a permanent problem, aggravated more 
and more as machine processes are multiplied, indus-
try must face the dilemma of shorter hours to employ 
all, or heavier taxes to support the workless. The five 
day week in industry is coming for the simple rea-
son that the machine has made it not only feasible, 
but inevitable. No manifestation of so-called econ-
omic law can blink the cold, hard fact of idleness 
and starvation. 

If a nation, according to Lincoln's happy 
phrase, cannot exist half free, half slave, neither .can 
it exist half employed, half idle. With machine-
power displacing man-power, production has out-
stripped all previous records, even those before the 
depression set in. So great is the potential production 
capacity of the country because of the vast use of 
power and new machinery that if the manufacturing 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
establishments of the Nation were to operate five 
hours a day at full capacity, the total volume of pro-
duction would be even greater than it is at present. 

Overhead costs operate twenty-four hours a day 
every day in the year. The enormous investment in 
plants and machinery makes it necessary that they 
should operate as many hours per day as possible, so 
that overhead expenses and the amount of capital 
may be reduced. 

It would be more profitable to investors, more 
beneficial to wage-earners, and of greater advantage 
to the public generally, if many of our manufactur-
ing plants operated two five-hour shifts per day, for, 
as modern industry is managed, little if any confu-
sion and lost effort would take place by having one 
shift of workmen employed in the forenoon and an-
other shift in the afternoon. 

The two or three short-shift plan of operation 
during daytime is coming as certainly as the three 
eight-hour shifts displaced the two 12-hour shifts in 
continuous production. Where that adjustment has 
been made, companies report increased output, and 
enhanced profits, without reduction in wages. 

There is the nub of the whole matter. Shorter 
hours and sustained wage scales, with more employr 
ed, and purchasing power among the mass of the 
workers increased, is the only feasible way, indeed 
the only sensible way, to meet the challenge of the 
machine, and break the strangle hold of unemploy-
ment on the country. Have we the statesmanship, 
political and economic, to meet the situation? 

Happily a new spirit is making its appearance in 
industry. The era of rugged selfishness, culminat-
ing in the abysmal wretchedness, and misery of the 
past three years, has brought an awakening. In the 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
ranks of the industrialists themselves new leaders 
are appearing who see that the welfare of the entire 
Nation must be looked to in the adjustments to come, 
rather than the narrow, selfish interests of those who 
seek unlimited profits even at the cost of widespread 
human suffering. 

But despite the efforts of these few forward-
looking, far-sighted leaders, the necessary adjust-
ments will not be made, the serious problems of the 
new epoch will not be solved, without the interven-
tion of Government. Industry itself has short-sight-
edly made such intervention imperative. By adding 
to the enormous totals of the unemployed instead of 
spreading work, industry itself has created the de-
mand for compulsory unemployment insurance; by 
adopting the indefensible, uncivilized practice of fix-
ing the limit of human service at 40 or 45 years of 
age, with all the dire consequences which such retire-
ment means to society, industry has forced Govern-
ment to consider retirement annuities, which will 
adequately meet such situations, through the enact-
ment of a practical and comprehensive plan of re-
tirement legislation. By paying the workers a mere 
subsistence wage instead of a security wage, indus-
try itself has started the clamor for old-age pension 
legislation to care for those who are incapacitated 
because of age and infirmity. 

How far Government will go in taking over the 
control of industry for thè common weal, will de-
pend on how far industry itself far-sightedly incor-
porates "human planning" into the economic plan-
ning now so prominently discussed. Economic 
planning is vital to the new era, to avoid the over-
production and waste of the hit-and-miss policy of 
the past, but "human planning" must receive far 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
more attention in the new day if industry is to meas-
ure up to the new responsibilities set by an aroused 
public opinion. The present unemployment has 
started a ground swell that may sweep all before it 
unless the human responsibilities of industrial rela-
tions are speedily recognized and measures taken to 
meet them. The machine has made the problem 
acute. 

A just and rational solution is possible. May it 
be found without resort to strife, bitterness and in-
dustrial warfare! The famous old adage is pecu-
liarly pertinent to the present situation: "A stitch 
in time, saves nine!" 



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PEACE AND WAR 
Address delivered on October 16, 1932 

On the top of the Andes Mountains in South 
America, on the boundary line between Argentina 
and Chile, stands a colossal statue of Christ the 
Redeemer. It is known as the Christ of the Andes. 
The figure of the Saviour is twenty-six feet high and 
stands on a tall, granite pillar, surmounted by a 
globe on which a map of the World is outlined. A 
tablet at the base bears these inspiring words: 

"Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust 
than Argentines and Chileans break the peace to 
which they have pledged themselves at the feet of 
Christ the Redeemer." 

Here is a Peace Monument for all the world to 
contemplate and ponder. In 1902 Chile and Argen-
tina were making great preparations to go to war 
over a boundary dispute. Chiefly through the ef-
forts of the women and the clergy, they were per-
suaded to settle the dispute by arbitration instead of 
war, and to use the money thus saved for better 
roads and harbors. Part of the money built the great 
trans-Andean Railway between Santiago and 
Buenos Ayres. Instead of stocking the mountain 
heights with howitzers and machine-gun posts, they 
disarmed a thousand miles of their mutual frontier, 
adopted universal arbitration, and sealed their peace 
at the feet of Christ the Redeemer, the Prince of 
Peace. 

What a lesson for a war-torn world! What a 
hope for the war-weary peace forces of all nations! 
What an inspiration for the flagging efforts of those 
who are seeking the key to universal peace despite 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
the baffling discouragements of a seemingly futile 
quest! The Christ of the Andes proclaims to the 
world that lasting peace there will never be until 
the agreements are signed and sealed at the feet of 
Christ the Redeemer, the Prince of Peace. If belli-
cose nationalism is to be held in leash, if national 
fears are to be allayed, if treaties are to be more 
than "mere scraps of paper", then the power of 
Christ must be invoked, the guidance of Christ must 
be sought, the spirit of Christ must pervade national 
minds and international conferences far more than 
it has since the war. Here is the key to universal 
peace ! There is no other ! 

The Peace Movement must not fail ! Have we 
forgotten the last war's awful holocaust? The 
10,000,000 known dead soldiers; the 3,000,000 pre-
sumed dead in addition ; the 13,000,000 dead civil-
ians ; the 20,000,000 wounded ; the 3,000,000 prison-
ers; thé 9,000,000 war orphans; the 5,000,000 war 
widows; the 10,000,000 refugees? No! The Peace 
Movement must not fail! The Moloch of War has 
devoured too many lives, brought grief and bereave-
ment to too many homes, set back the progress of 
civilization too many years, ever again to receive the 
homage of the intelligent and enlightened peoples of 
the world. 

What madness possessed the world during the 
World War to squander 237 billions of dollars, a 
sum equal to more than half the entire national 
wealth of the United States, upon the destruction of 
war ! Children yet unborn, aye, unto the third gen-
eration, will live and die the innocent victims of that 
wild financial folly! 

What a price the nations of the world pay for 
the senseless indulgence of national fears, and na-



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
tional rivalries, and national greed! For these are 
the things that breed wars, and wars drain national 
treasuries and deplete the wealth of peoples. Peace 
now reigns, yet nearly 30,000,000 men stand at arms 
in the various Nations throughout the world. Hu-
man society everywhere is floundering in the bogs 
of social and financial and industrial difficulties and 
bewilderment, yet the governments of the world are 
pouring $4,500,000,000 annually into preparations 
for the next war. Peoples everywhere are groaning 
under the burden of the mounting costs of govern-
ment, yet between 50 and 85 cents of every revenue 
dollar goes to foot the bill of the most recent inter-
national adventure in slaughter.. When will the war-
frenzy pass? When will sanity return? How long 
will it take the peoples of the world to realize that 
war, instead of being the glorious thing that militar-
ists depict, is in reality only another name for slow 
but inevitable national suicide? 

One doesn't have to be a pacifist to hate war, and 
seek to avert its awful consequences and frightful 
results among the peoples of the earth. Every Pope 
in the last fifty years has warned the Nations and 
their peoples against the menace of war in national 
rivalries and national armaments and national greed. 

On February 11, 1889, twenty-five years before 
the Great War, Leo XIII issued this solemn warning: 
"Nothing is more important than to avert from Eur-
ope the danger of war, and thus all that can be done 
towards this end must be considered as a work of 
public safety. . . The menacing multiplication of 
armies is calculated rather to excite rivalry and 
suspicion than to repress them. It troubles men's 
minds by a restless expectation of coming disasters, 
and meanwhile it weighs down the citizens with ex-



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
penses so heavy that one may doubt whether they 
are not even more intolerable than war itself." 

Again, on June 20, 1894, twenty years before the 
war broke out, the same great Pontiff foretold the 
coming cataclysm in these solemn words of warning 
to Europe: "We behold the condition of Europe. For 
many years past peace has been rather an appear-
ance than a reality. Possessed with mutual suspic-
ions, almost all the nations are vying with one an-
other in equipping themselves with military arma-
ments. Inexperienced youths are removed' from 
parental direction and control to be thrown amid 
the dangers of the soldier's life; robust young men 
are taken from agriculture, or ennobling studies or 
trade, or the arts, to be put under arms. Hence the 
treasuries of the States are exhausted by the enor-
mous expenditure, the national resources are frit-
tered away, and private fortunes impaired, and 
thus, as it were, armed peace which now prevails 
cannot last much longer." 

This was the Pope's prophecy of the Great War, 
and now only fourteen years after all the battles 
and horrors of that frightful conflict, after all the 
welter of blood, and wasted treasure, and ghastly 
cruelties, the Pope's words are a true picture of the 
world again today with the nations vying with one 
another in armies and armaments and military 
equipment on a larger scale than ever before, rush-
ing on to the next great war—and oblivion! 

We are living on a hair-trigger peace right now. 
The Dogs of War may be unleashed at any moment. 
A spark may cause the explosion again as it did in 
1914. Every international conference since the war 
has disclosed the ominous fact that the lessons of 
the World War have not been learned. The old anti-



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
pathies survive; belligerent nationalism has in-
creased, national fears predominate. The world is 
full of high-placed operators of national policies, 
loud in their professions of peace before the world; 
but at home, politics dictates the preparations for 
war. Between promise and performance a large dis-
crepancy exists. Fortunate it is for the world that 
the ground swell of mass opinion the world over has 
become so formidable for peace that diplomats and 
politicians dare not run counter to it. 

The 1 recent Disarmament Conference at Geneva 
is a clear case in point. In the East, Japan gave the 
death blow to internationalism, after the politicians 
at Geneva had doomed the hopes of disarmament by 
pursuing selfish national ends. The three major dis-
armament proposals—the French, German and 
Anglo-Saxon—were attempts to. solve and re-enforce 
domestic situations rather than to meet the world 
problem of reduced armaments. The political sore 
spots of Europe have not been healed by the lapse 
of time since the World War. Security based on 
"force" still rules the European mind. 

The French formula, "security before disarma-
ment," presents an irreconcilable difference with the 
Anglo-Saxon formula, "security through disarma-
ment." The two points of view are hopelessly op-
posed, and, in effect, the Geneva Conference ended 
with Tardieu's opening speech for France. 

The purpose of France is to maintain the results 
of the World War and the Allied victory by the 
overwhelming power of arms. Germany wants to 
produce general revision of the peace treaties to re-
establish herself among the Nations of the World. 
Italy seeks to exploit Franco-German disputes to 
her own profit. These three National policies are 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
utterly irreconcilable, and disarmament at Geneva 
actually became only a side issue supplying a pre-
text for battle. The hopes of the world for disarma-
ment have been dashed primarily by the French 
demand for "security before disarmament." The 
new security through cooperation and understanding 
makes no appeal to the French mind. Bombs and 
guns and bayonets still rule French mentality. 
Japanese practice is French theory. The diplomats 
and politicians assembled at Geneva once more have 
bedevilled world peace. At the Conference, all the 
statesmen clearly pronounced for a reduction of 
armaments, and at the same time all attached im-
possible conditions for any actual decrease in the 
costs and numbers of their armed forces. Political 
considerations were allowed to dominate and defeat 
the common sense of mankind. Selfish nationalism 
still rules international relations. 

The hope of world peace depends not upon Gov-
ernments, but upon the mass opinion of mankind. 
That opinion marshalled for disarmament, arbitra-
tion and keeping faith, will bring the long deferred 
dawn of a better day for all the peoples of the earth. 
As for disarmament, is not the present economic 
condition of the world compelling reason for its 
adoption? Why keep up the utterly useless burden 
of expense for the~ engines of war in a world stag-
gering under intolerable economic burdens? All the 
nations of the world are weighted down under the 
load of excessive taxation. Rich and poor alike pay 
the excessive costs of government. Why pour five 
thousand millions of treasure annually into competi-
tive armaments which are almost certain to lead to 
war, when, if put to constructive purposes, only 
benefit could accrue to the respective nations? 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
How about spending some of this wasted money 

in building up education, so that through a wider 
knowledge, human life may be made happier and 
sweeter? How about opening up the forests and 
making the health-giving countryside available to 
the little children who now wither in our cities? 
How about building churches in which, with the 
help of an inspired clergy, the spiritual side of the 
Nation's life may be developed? When the mass 
opinion of mankind calls a halt upon gigantic mili-
tary expenditures, the first step towards the bles-
sings of world peace will have been taken. 

But disarmament is not enough. There remains 
the affirmative program of building up the instru-
mentalities of peace, notably treaties of non-aggres-
sion, arbitration and conciliation. Why appeal once 
more to the bloody arbitrament of the sword, when 
the means of peaceful accord are within our grasp? 
Why resort to war and violence and brutality and 
organized slaughter when reasonableness and co-
operation clearly point the way to peace? To the 
mass opinion of the world it is becoming ever more 
clear, thank God, that violence defeats itself. Vio-
lence is no way to achieve either family life, or edu-
cation, or religion, or stable government. Those 
who rely on violence as their mainstay and effective 
instrument are sure to miss what they are seeking 
to achieve. Progress has always consisted in carry-
ing over human life from violence to cooperation. 
The Lord Himself has said it: "All that take the 
sword shall perish with the sword." 

Dear friends of the radio audience, the promotion 
of World Peace is a cause that should enlist the en-
thusiastic support of all sensible men. The Popes 
urge it; the leading statesmen in all nations endorse 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAf 55 
it; the common sense of mankind approves it. The 
road to peace is now crystal clear. It is marked by 
three signposts, pointing the way: Disarm! Arbi-
trate! Keep faith! As the mass opinion of the 
world assimilates more and more the meaning of 
those words and the blessings they assure, the ruth-
less god of war will tremble for his power and sur-
render at last his long sway and reign over mankind 
into the hands of Christ the Redeemer, the Prince 
of Peace! The Christ of the Andes is the sign and 
symbol of World Peace. 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 

THE CITIZEN'S PUBLIC DUTY 
Address delivered on Ocotber 23, 1932 

Two weeks from next Tuesday will be Election 
Day. On that day the Nation will go to the polls. A 
great people, pledged to the representative democra-
tic form of government, will express its will through 
the ballot on issues and candidates. The vote of the 
electorate of the United States of America will be 
cast. Where other nations settle their problems of 
government by revolution and the arbitrament of 
the sword, we settle ours, thank God, by the more 
satisfactory process of the vote. 

When -the destiny of 120,000,000 people hangs on 
the result, what wonder that Election Day has been 
called "the great assize" of the American People! 
To vote is the citizen's first public duty. Neglect of 
that duty imperils the Nation. For the ballot in the 
hands of the Nation's electorate, not only assures 
the perpetuity of our free institutions, but it deter-
mintes as well how far those institutions-shall re-
main free both from the blighting influence of "in-
visible government" on the one hand, and from the 
tyranny of the mob led by the demagogue on the 
other. 

Through the ballot, dear friends, let us never 
forget, the people have it in their power to cut off 
those who have proved unworthy of the public trust 
reposed in them. Through the ballot the people can 
exclude from public office those who are unfit either 
by training or outlook for the people's service. 
Through the ballot the people can cure every dis-
order and heal every abuse in government whether 
it arise from incompetence, or from inefficiency, or 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
from downright dishonesty and knavery. Along with 
the ordinary and orderly processes of education, or-
ganization, and legislation, the ballot is a sovereign 
people's defense. Through these all social wrongs 
can be righted. 

Just now, democracy as a form of government, 
through the world and right here in our own coun-
try, is under fire. Foreign dictators ridicule and 
jeer at democracy as an inefficient and bungling 
system of government; domestic critics, with short-
sighted vision, misled by current grave abuses in 
government, federal, state and municipal, have lost 
faith in our Republic, would jettison democracy, and 
launch the Ship of State anew under "the benign 
tyranny of a dictator"! What folly! What nonsense! 
What madness! Let other nations keep their foreign 
dictators if they will. For me, American democracy, 
with all its faults, still stands without a peer amid 
the governments of the world! 

But let us not blind ourselves to our faults. It 
is no part of wisdom to shut our eyes to grave perils. 
The rumblings, the dissatisfaction, the discontent 
with government in our midst undoubtedly has a 
strong basis in fact. Whence come the complaints 
and misgivings about government at the present 
time? They may be traced to three outstanding 
sources of abuse: official corruption, public graft, 
and selfish interests in the holding of public office. 
One of the most prominent men in public life to-day 
recently asserted that "never before in the history 
of our country have so many public officials been 
faithless to their trust as at the present time. There 
has been in recent years a striking change in the 
attitude of men elected or appointed to office toward 
the duties and obligations of that office." "This is 



<54 THE CHURCH AND SOME 
my belief," he said, "from observation of conditions 
in every part of the country". "This lowering of 
standards", he continued, "appears to pervade all 
branches of the public service. It has made its in-
fluence felt on the most sacred of obligations. Even 
our judges have been faithless to their trust." 

What an era of betrayal those words depict! Can 
it be that democracy breeds such conditions? Is the 
exploitation of public office for private gain to be 
the end of government? Is a sovereign people to be 
shackled and despoiled by the minions of its own 
creation ? That there has been such betrayal of pub-
lic trust, that thievery and rascality have smirched 
the cloak of authority, is a fact so obvious to all that 
graft in public office has become a byword among us. 

Have we here an explanation of the crime wave 
in the country at large? To-day we are harassed 
by an orgy of lawlessness unparalleled in the his-
tory of our Nation. Crime, in all its hideous deform-
ity, boldly and brazenly stalks the streets of our 
cities, openly flaunting authority, and endangering 
the lives and the property of the people. Truly it has 
been said that the cheapest thing in the Nation to-
day is human life. Whence this wave of crime in 
our land? What is at the root of this widespread 
lawlessness? To my mind, one of the most prolific 
sources is corruption in public office. Right here, I 
think, we find a tap-root of our lawlessness, a well-
spring of our crime. 

I am convinced, and many are convinced with 
me, that in many cases those who wield the sceptre 
of authority are guilty of serious crime. Dear 
friends, it is a terrible thing for the people to lose 
confidence in those who rule them. When public 
officials forget their sacred oaths, and stoop to the 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
level of common thieves, and by fraud, and deceit 
and injustice, infringe on the rights of the citizens, 
then authority becomes a travesty, and the flood-
gates of crime are opened wide. When a man high-
er up and holding a position of public trust can steal 
$1,000,000 with impunity, what is there, I ask, to 
stay the hand of the petty thief who would chance 
$1,000? 

When the robes of justice are stained with the 
unspeakable crime of bribery, tattered and torn by 
avarice and selfishness, then public confidence is 
dashed to pieces, and the majesty and sanctity of the 
law in the courtroom are irretrievably undermined. 
Never will you curb crime, as long as purse-bound 
plutocrats buy legislatures! Never will you curb 
crime as long as frenzied fanatics brow-beat law-
makers! Never will you curb crime as long as the 
criminal can buy protection at the price of a ballot! 
Never will you curb crime as long as decisions of 
judge and jury are acutioned off to the highest bid-
der ! Never will you curb crime as long as appoint-
ments to teaching staffs come only after the payment 
of bribe-money to grafting, bribe-seeking, school 
committeemen! Never will you curb crime as long 
as the pleadings of policy and political expediency 
are substituted for the principles of justice! 

For as long as grovelling graft usurps the place 
of unimpeachable integrity, honor, and character, 
in high stations of life, the orgy of lawlessness will 
go on, and the dance of the devil will hold high 
revelry. Political poltroonery, unmitigated rascality, 
and contemptible bribery in public office, have done 
more, far more, to breed crime in the masses, than 
have ignorance, or indigence, or squalor, or the 
slums. 



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When honor sits in the chair of authority, when 

justice reigns in the tribunals of the people, when 
honesty and integrity rule in public office, then, and 
not till then, can you hope to stem the tide of law-
lessness, and curb the madness of crime. 

And how can this be done? By the people rising 
at last everywhere against corruption in public of-
fice ; by the citizen fulfilling the citizen's public duty, 
and voting; by the electorate using the ballot to 
drive from public office the bribe-taker, the corrupt 
politician, the dishonest public servant, who look 
upon election to public office as a commission from 
the people to despoil them, and pursue their own il-
legimate, personal, selfish ends. The ballot, the vote, 
is democracy's way of purifying public life, and put-
ting an end to corruption in public office. An aroused 
public opinion is democracy's safeguard. 

Dear friends, why does corruption in public office 
flourish? Because for some years now public apathy 
has kept the people away from the polls. The figures 
tell the story with a clarity that is tragic. They 
make one almost despair of democracy. During the 
long period when the United States was primarily 
agricultural, interest in balloting during Presiden-
tial contests was tremendous. More than 80 per 
cent of all voters qualified to mark ballots swarmed 
to the polls at every election held during the first 
half of the nineteenth century. During that time, 
only 20 per cent stayed away from the polls. In 
1880, 84 per cent of the electorate voted; in 1884, 
81 per cent; in 1888, 82.3 per cent; in 1896, 82.8 
per cent. 

That year marked the high tide. In almost every 
Presidential year since 1896, the figure fell with 
astonishing rapidity. In 1900, only 77 per cent 



OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11 
voted; in 1904 even greater indifference carried the 
percentage down to 67.6; by 1908, it had dropped to 
67 per cent; by 1912, to 62.8 per cent. 1920 marked 
the record low of all time. That year but 48 per 
cent of those entitled to vote deposited ballots on 
election day. Even in 1928, 48 per cent of the elec-
torate were stay-at-homes. 

During the past three decades, a silent boycott 
on the ballot has been in evidence among the people. 
Is it a mere coincidence that the era of corruption 
in public office, now attaining brazen and perilous 
proportions, is exactly coterminous with this era of 
public apathy toward the ballot? In a democracy, 
what protection have the people against political 
exploitation other than the ballot? Shall the citizen, 
by shirking his public duty of. voting, give silent ap-
proval to the debauching of public office now going 
on? If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, how 
can the liberty of the people survive when their 
viligance grows slack? 

Dear friends of the radio audience, our Ameri-
can heritage of freedom is the greatest political trea-
sure possessed by any people on earth. From the 
first, the Founders of our Nation swept away all 
lines of class distinction and interdicted all old-world 
ranks and titles. In America there would be no class 
aristocracy and no commons; the people, the whole 
people, would be sovereign. The unalterable pur-
pose that inspired and sustained Washington and 
the patriots and statesmen who launched our demo-
cracy was the high resolve to secure for every man 
on American soil the inalienable rights with which 
he had been endowed by the Creator. They made 
the fundamental principle of democracy—the right 
of the people to govern themselves—the corner-stone 



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of their new creation. On it rested the liberties, 
privileges and prerogatives of the American citizen. 
Manhood was to be the only condition of citizenship 
and universal suffrage the medium through which 
the people should authoritatively make known their 
will. Equality of rights and equality of opportunity 
before the law should be the appanage of every 
American by birth and adoption. Liberty in un-
stinted measure was guaranteed by the Constitution 
to every citizen; for the preservation of order the 
Government would depend not on bayonets, but on 
the intelligence and loyalty of the people. 

This is our heritage of freedom! Its preservation 
is in our hands. That heritage can be dissipated by 
corruption in public office; it can be squandered by 
official graft ; it can be lost by continued public 
apathy toward the ballot. Democracy is a self-heal-
ing and self-purifying form of government; but the 
process, to be successful, depends upon an intelligent 
electorate, an interested public, and an alert people. 

The Founders of our Nation, the men to whom 
we owe our freedom, knew that moral consciousness 
underlies that organized life which we call to-day 
the State. The nation that forgets it, or neglects it, 
or spurns it, is fore-ordained to final ruin and fail-
ure. For, just as inevitably as, under God, the sun 
will rise to-morrow morning, "the sole foundation of 
the permanence of a State is the moral conscious-
ness, the quickening sense of righteousness, which 
abides in the heart of its people. 

As we approach "the great assize", of the Amer-
ican people on Election Day, may every citizen of 
the Nation be mindful of his public duty, and cast 
his vote with courage, discipline, and loftiness of 
purpose, to the end that, "purged of corruption in 



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public office, this Nation, under God, shall not perish from the earth! 



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CHRIST OR CHAOS 
Addressed delivered on October 30, 1932 

Dear friends of the radio audience, in this, 
my last address, let me ask you a searching 
question. What is the greatest need in America to-
day? Is it not honesty in business? Is it not free-
dom from political corruption? Is it not integrity in 
finance? Business, politics, finance! These three 
hold the key to America's future. Corruption in all 
three is the dangling sword which threatens democ-
racy's life. In a word, America's outstanding need 
to-day, as I see it, is CONSCIENCE! Conscience in 
business; conscience in politics; conscience in fin-
ance ! Can it be denied that the troubles from which 
we suffer are due in very large part to the fact that 
in the recent past, abandoning conscience, as the 
guide of life we made 'gold our god', and allowed 
the passion of Midas to usurp the place in the con-
duct of life which rightly belongs, both by reason 
and Revelation, under the gentle sway of the reign 
of Christ? 

Like the Church of Laodicea in the Apocalypse, 
we have been guilty of practical apostasy from Jesus 
Christ. We, too, said: I am rich, and made wealthy, 
and have need of nothing; and knew not that we 
were wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, 
and naked. We, too, need to buy of Christ gold fire-
tried, that we may be made rich; we, too, need to 
anoint our eyes with eyesalve, that we may see. 

Dear friends, to-day is the Feastday of Christ, 
the King. To-day in the whole Christian world, the 
Kingship of Christ over life is extolled; the reign of 
Christ over the hearts and consciences of men is 



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acknowledged anew; the sway of Christ in the af-
fairs of life and living is devoutly honored and rev-
erently adored. Wherever the Christian Name is 
held in honor, wherever the Christian missionary 
has carried the good tidings of Christ's blessed Gos-
pel, wherever the Christian standard of Christ's holy 
Cross has been raised on high, to-day, the prophet 
Daniel's prophetic words are recalled and repeated 
with shouts of joy and great rejoicing: 

"And He gave Him power, and glory, and a Kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve Him. His power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away, and His Kingdom that shall not be destroyed." 

Ah, yes! Christ is King by every title; King by 
nature, and King by purchase—for at a "great 
price" He bought us back when' we were lost and 
hopeless. The ransom paid was no less than His own 
Precious Blood. "You were not redeemed," says St. 
Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, "You were not 
redeemed with corruptible things, as gold and silver, 
but with the Precious Blood of Christ, as of a lamb 
unspotted and undefiled." Yes! King Christ is— 
King in all truth and reality; King of each individ-
ual soul; King of the family circle; King of 
society in its every phase. And kinglike He came 
that we might have life and have it more abun-
dantly, "by bringing into captivity," as St. Paul so 
wonderfully words it, "by bringing into captivity 
every understanding unto the obedience of Christ." 

Dear friends, there is our salvation as a Nation 
in the spiritual sense and in the temporal sense: 
conscience! Christian conscience, brought into 
captivity unto the obedience of Christ! "He must 
reign," says Saint Paul. Aye! If we would emerge 



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from the darkness of our present despondency, His 
Kingly Light must enlighten the conscience of the 
Nation—He must reign! If we would banish fear 
and rise with renewed hope to face the future with 
courage undaunted, His Kingly guidance must be 
sought—He must reign! If we would build endur-
ing prosperity upon the ruin and desolation about 
us, His Kingly Spirit must inspire our hearts and 
our deeds—He must reign! 

Christ or chaos! Conscience or ruin! That is the 
alternative that confronts American democracy to-
day. Never was time more ripe for a flaming, cru-
sade for Christian conscience and Christian moral-
ity in business, politics and finance, than it is in 
America at the present time. The soul-search-
ings of the present, precipitated by the dark days 
of the depression, have made it as clear as the noon-
day sun that the trials and tribulations through 
which the Nation is passing are due to, at bottom, 
the fact that the Christian conscience of the Nation 
has gone into eclipse. No Nation, least of all a 
democracy, can lose its conscience and escape the 
sanctions which loss of conscience entails. The wild 
speculation and gambling of the recent past were 
without conscience. Hence the Nation suffers! The 
business racketeering in alliance with the criminal 
underworld is without conscience. Hence the Nation 
suffers! The financial debauch that brought banks 
crashing in every part of the country with the loss 
of billions to the American public was without con-
science. Hence the Nation suffers! The wide-
spread corruption in public office; with its miserable 
bribes and sordid graft, is without conscience. 
Hence, again, the Nation suffers! Christ or chaos! 
Conscience or ruin! That is the choice which con-



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fronts us. Christ the King! He must reign if the Nation is not to die! 

Dear friends, each one of us should ask, and ask 
in deepest anxiety, what is it that will give vigor to 
democracy, that will secure to it the promise of un-
dying life? And in each one's soul, the answer will 
ring out: It is conscience—conscience animating and 
inspiring the souls of the people who have chosen 
democracy to be the guardian of the destinies of 
their country. 

For conscience is that deep, abiding sense of 
righteousness, which is the basis of civic, as well as 
personal, morality. It is the inflexible determination 
to follow the voice of righteousness whithersoever it 
calls. It is the holiest, the noblest thing in man. It 
is conscience that differentiates man from lower 
orders of beings; it is conscience that nurtures with-
in him a divine life; it is conscience that makes him 
a child of the skies walking upon earth. Conscience 
is God's direct creation, God's most precious gift to 
men. Milton, in his great poem has emblazoned this 
truth: 

"And I will place within them as a guide, 
My umpire, conscience, whom if they will hear, 

. Light, a f t e r light well used they shall attain, 
And to the end persisting safe arrive." 

Yes | Conscience is the voice of the Lawgiver of 
the universe proclaiming the eternal law of right-
eousness and summoning men to obey it. It is the 
voice of the mighty Guardian and Avenger of the 
moral law, the voice of Him whose rewards and 
punishments are. meted out as surely as His justice 
is never thwarted or defeated. Conscience is the 



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voice of the Living God, and "no witness is so ter-
rible, no accuser so powerful as the conscience that 
dwells in the breast of every man." Reason pro-
claims it. Our own experience confirms it. 
Righteousness is the vital element in a successful 
democracy. Where righteousness decays and per-
ishes, whether in the individual or in the social 
organism, human life decays and perishes. And, 
on account of the supreme need of righteousness, 
the sense of it is planted deep in the human soul 
The mind perforce hears its mandates, the heart 
perforce thrills beneath the power and splendor of 
its beauty. Throned in the very, soul of man is the 
spirit of righteousness, and before its authority, 
whether we will or not, we bow in homage. 

On what then shall democracy rely for its 
strength and permanence if it be not conscience? 
Shall democracy place its reliance on physical force, 
and call to its support soldiers and police? Then it is 
no longer democracy. Democracy may have soldiers 
and police to repress passion, when passion domin-
ates only the few. When passion sways the multi-
tude, physical force is of no avail. Speak, if you will, 
of physical force to empires and to monarchies, 
where the supreme power is vested in one or in the 
few. Speak, if you "will, of physical force to a Napo-
léon or to a Mussolini. Dictators make use of phy-
sical force. They put no trust in the ability of the 
people to govern themselves. But democracy can 
have nothing to do with a Napoleon or a Mussolini. 

Shall democracy place its reliance upon laws and 
lawgivers? "What purpose do laws serve which 
morals do not vivify ?" What was true in Rome ages 
ago is true in America today. If the lawgivers are 
corrupt, good laws will not be made; evil laws will 



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be enacted. The power of framing laws will be only 
an instrument of corruption and anarchy. 

Shall democracy place its reliance on education? 
Is not education the panacea for all our ills? Is not 
democracy safe in America where the school-house 
bedecks every vale and every hill-top? Ah' Even 
education will not save democracy if education means 
only the training of the intellect. Intelligence is, as-
suredly, an essential element of good citizenship, and 
not for a moment should we dream of relaxing our 
efforts m fostering it. But, by itself, the training 
ol the intellect merely develops power while leaving 
it without direction. Mighty is the power of the 
mmd when virtue guides it. More disastrous is it 
more harmful far than simple ignorance, when it is 
controlled and swayed by evil appetites. 

Ah, no! Not physical force, not laws and law-
givers, not even education will suffice. Naught else 
but conscience, Christian conscience, can save de-
mocracy. For conscience alone can subjugate pas-
sion, conscience alone can eliminate dishonesty in 
business, conscience alone can remove corruption 
from public office. Always and everywhere civiliza-
tion has flourished with virtue; it has decayed with 
vice. For democracy there is no salvation except 
through the moral law deeply engraved in the souls 
of the people. Our greatest need in America today 
xs fortified by the principles, teachings and example 
of Christ the King. 

Dear friends of the radio audience, for nine suc-
cessive Sundays it has been my privilege, highly-
esteemed, to discuss with you some of the pressing 
problems of the day. All of them had to do with the 
welfare of our country, whose interests and progress 
are very dear and precious to all of us. Whether it 



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be the problem of youth, or divorce, or crime, or 
business, politics and finance, the inescapable con-
clusion is forced upon us that the time is ripe for 
a healthy revival of genuine American citizenship. 
If we would escape ruin, we must cultivate con-
science. If we would avoid chaos, we must follow 
Christ. As Washington, the first and greatest Ame-
rican, declared in his Farewell Address to the Ame-
rican People: "National Morality cannot prevail in 
exclusion of religious principle." It is the lesson 
most needed in America today. 

Ah, yes! Dear friends, Washington was right, 
eternally right! If national life is at a very low ebb 
among us to-day, the remedy for it all is Christ and 
religion; Christ and religion in high stations of life; 
Christ and religion in the lives of legislators, of 
judges, of jurors; Christ and religion in the class-
rooin and lecture hall, in the hearts of students and 
instructors alike; Christ and religion in the home, 
in the souls of parent and child. 

Do you want to save our heritage of freedom? 
Do you want to stem the raging tide of lawlessness? 
Then get Christ and religion into our halls of learn-
ing. Get the knowledge of God and Christ into the 
mind of youth. Get the love of God and Christ into 
the heart of youth. Get the law of God and Christ 
into the life of youth. And then, but not till then, 
will our democracy be safe from the perils that beset 
her. Make no mistake, dear friends, Christian con-
science is our need! Practical loyalty to Christ the 
King is the Nation's road to recovery and enduring 
prosperity, temporal as well as spiritual. He must 
reign! He must reign! 



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" T h e D iv ine Romance , " b y R e v . Dr . F u l t o n J . Sheen , 80 p a g e s a n d cover . S ingle copy, 20c p o s t p a i d . In q u a n t i t i e s , $9.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Mora l O r d e r " and " M a r y , the Mother of J e s u s , " b y Rev . Dr . George J o h n s o n , 64 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 15c pos tpa id . In q u a n t i t i e s , $6.00 p e r 100. 
" A Tr i logy on P r a y e r , " b y Rev . T h o m a s F . B u r k e , C. S. P . , 32 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 10c p o s t p a i d . I n q u a n t i t i e s , $5.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e S t o r y of t h e Bib le , " by Rev . Dr . F r a n c i s L . K e e n a n , 64 p a g e s a n d cover . S ingle copy, 15c p o s t p a i d . I n q u a n t i t i e s , $6.00 p e r 100. 
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" T h e Ph i losophy of Ca tho l ic E d u c a t i o n , " b y Rev . Dr . C h a r l e s L. O 'Donnel l , C. S. C., 32 p a g e s , a n d cover . Single copy, 10c pos tpa id . In q u a n t i t i e s , $5.00 p e r 100. 
" C h r i s t i a n i t y and t h e Modern Mind , " b y Rev . J o h n A. M c -Clorey, S. J . , 64 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 15c pos tpa id . In q u a n t i t i e s , $6.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Moral L a w , " b y Rev . J a m e s M. Glllls, C. S. P . , 88 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 25c p o s t p a i d . In q u a n t i t i e s , $9.50 p e r 100. 
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" T h e M a r k s of t h e C h u r c h , " b y Rev. Dr . J o h n K . C a r t w r l g h t , 48 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d . I n q u a n t i t i e s , $5.50 p e r 100. 
" T h e Organ iza t ion and G o v e r n m e n t of t h e C h u r c h , " b y Rev . Dr . F r a n c i s J . Connell , C. SS. R., 48 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 15c pos tpa id . In q u a n t i t i e s , $5.50 p e r 100. 
"Mora l F a c t o r s in Economic L i f e , " by Rev . Dr . F r a n c i s J . H a a s a n d Rev . Dr . J o h n A. R y a n , 32 p a g e s a n d cove r . Single copy, 10c pos tpa id . I n q u a n t i t i e s , $5.00 p e r 100. 
"Div ine Helps fo r M a n , " b y Rev . Dr . E d w a r d J . "Walsh, C. M., 104 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 30c pos tpa id . In q u a n t i t i e s , $11.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e P a r a b l e s , " b y Rev . J o h n A. McClorey, S. J . , 128 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 35c pos tpa id . I n q u a n t i t i e s , $12.00 p e r 100. 
" C h r i s t i a n i t y ' s Con t r i bu t ion to Civ i l iza t ion ," b y Rev. J a m e s M Gillis, C S. P . , 96 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 25c p o s t p a i d . In q u a n t i t i e s , $10.00 p e r 100. 
" M a n i f e s t a t i o n s of C h r i s t , " by Rev . Dr . F u l t o n J . Sheen , 128 p a g e s a n d cover . S ingle copy, 35c pos tpa id . In q u a n t i t i e s , $12.00 p e r 100. 
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" T h e C h u r c h and t h e Chi ld , " b y Rev . Dr . P a u l H F u r f e y , 48 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d . I n q u a n t i t i e s , $5.50 p e r ' 100. " L o v e ' s . Veiled Vic to ry and Love ' s L a w s , " b y ' R e v . Dr . George F S t r o h a v e r , S. J . , 48 p a g e s a n d cover . Single copy, 15c pos tpa id . In q u a n t i t i e s , $5.50 p e r 100. 
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